Since its emergence as a nation-state, Bangladesh has been trying hard to reshape its administrative actions to meet citizens’ needs, maintain social order and attain the goals of human society. Now, public administration is to play a pivotal role, exercising a huge bulk of power and actions related to the aspect of individual’s life. It is today not concerned with only pure administrative functions, it occasionally also discharges a large volume of quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions. Consequently, there are numerous occasion of failure of fair acts and decisions that arbitrarily affects the citizen. In this sphere, development in the administrative justice system is desirable. Following the qualitative method through the textual analysis of laws and cases, to explore a multitude of principles for regulating the functions of the administrative bodies, this study critically reviews the mechanism of judicial control of administrative action in Bangladesh and seeks to find out the problems and prospects of judicial review as the major means for controlling administrative action towards the establishment of administrative justice in Bangladesh.
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